Keep Your Powder Dry

Six AM: that’s when society vamp Valerie Parks rolls home after a glamorous night out.

Six AM: that’s when Pvt. Valerie Parks gets up to hut two three four in olive drab and sensible shoes.

Lana Turner stars in a breezy comedy about an heiress who must prove her maturity to gain her inheritance, so she hatches an immature plan: join the WACs, fake some gravitas and quit as soon as she gets her manicured hands on the dough. Happily, Uncle Sam and World War II combine to help a spoiled little rich girl grow up.

Co-starring a platoon of bright Hollywood femmes, Keep Your Powder Dry is as snappy as a recruit’s salute but its comedy is tinged with heartbreak. After all, there was a war on—and war has consequences.